Dan Liebke's Astonishing Tales

Elephants… of all the animals that evolved from the common starfish, the elephant is by far the largest. This assumes, of course, that one excludes giant starfish conquerors from outer space, which has been standard size-comparison procedure in the scientific community since the 1960s. There are two kinds of elephants – the African and the [...]

In a time before Smallville (and let us never forget that there was such a time), kryptonite had a relatively simple role. Namely, it killed Kryptonians. And fair enough, too. Something had to. Sure, for a while there were various varieties – gold (which removed Kryptonian’s powers), red (which made them mutate in comical ways [...]

There was a show on TV last night called The World’s Greatest Magic Tricks Revealed. Pretty stupid show, with ‘The Masked Magician’ revealing, well, the world’s greatest magic tricks. And every time the secret to the trick was something like ‘You think you see the magician being torn apart by a pair of savage lions [...]